Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memo to overseas staffers notifying them that henceforth the U.S. "will normally not be prepared to finance publicly owned industrial and extractive enterprises." Lower-level career people in the State Department promptly planted stories in the metropolitan press accusing Hollister of distorting State Department policy, of trying to cram free enterprise down the throats of foreign governments as the price of getting U.S. aid. Headlines said the State Department had "repudiated" Hollister and that nothing had been changed...
Both tutorial for credit and course reduction offer gradeless, relatively independent study for some students. The line between them blurs, and it is hard to tell how much tutorial for credit succeeds when it is anything but a thesis course or a cram session for generals. Not too many students avail themselves of this privilege, which is infrequently pushed by departments...
...most telling critique came from George K. Moriarty, telegraph editor of the Hartford Times (circ. 116,012), who wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most newspapers cram the major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that would gain...
...Many. From the start, it opposed those who thought that educators should be content to cram the three Rs down the throats of the many and devote their best energies to the college-bound few. While such subjects as Latin and Greek began to retreat, the N.E.A. called for more and more vocational and physical education. Since World War II, it has backed the movement for safety education, driving lessons, audio-visual aids, and the whole host of courses (how to get along with the family, to buy clothes, to behave on a date) that go under the name "life...
...elementary science courses would probably have to miss the "free" winter period, but for the rest, it would be like the present reading periods put back-to-back and doubled. It would not be similar to the present reading period, however, for now this is really just a "cram period"--and one of the greatest aids in beating the grade system...